American Philosophical Society

Part of the 19th-century indoor gardening craze, this #newacq is a first ed. of the first American book on the cultivation of the cactus and dahlia (1839) that includes a list of varieties and instructions that cover treatment in the house." Learn more about our new acquisitions: https://www.amphilsoc.org/adopt-a-book

Join The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellows, Janine Boldt and Emily Margolis to hear behind-the-scenes stories from the making of the National Endowment for the Humanities-funded virtual exhibition tour of Dr. Franklin, Citizen Scientist. https://www.amphilsoc.org//virtual-tour-launch-dr-franklin

Earlier this year, Members and staff at the APS paused to reflect on our past and think about our future as the nation reckoned with racial injustice. This essay was originally published in the APS News and is now available on the APS blog: https://www.amphilsoc.org/blog/aps-and-inequality

$1,156an impressive Gold Rush payday from this #newacq, a collection of correspondence, diaries, and other miscellaneous documents from 49er Abijah Chauncey Owen #CollectionHighlights Learn about other new acquisitions here: https://www.amphilsoc.org/adopt-a-book

Congratulations to Nicolas Kristof (APS 2011)awarded the inaugural Aurora Humanitarian Journalism Award for his reporting on human rights abuses and social injustices. https://auroraprize.com//inaugural-aurora-humanitarian-jou

Mind your crocus! In 1728, French scientist Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700-1782) was the first to determine that a contagious fungus was the cause of a devastating saffron crocus disease. His papers at the APS include original botanical drawings like this one. https://search.amphilsoc.org/collections/view #CollectionHighlights #Botany #18thcenturyFrance

Today’s #GoogleDoodle celebrates Sir Arthur Lewis, St. Lucian economist and the first Black instructor to obtain a full professorship at Princeton. Lewis was elected to membership of the APS in 1966. #OnThisDay in 1979, Lewis was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in economics.

Early American colonial officials weaponized the fear of (often imagined) slave revolts and conspiracies to consolidate power, according to historian Jason Sharples. Tune in on 10/29 at 1PM for a talk on his book, The World That Fear Made https://www.amphilsoc.org//lunch-lecture-jason-sharples-wo #VastEarlyAmerica

Documents from the Loyalist Claims Commission include information about Black Loyalists and enslaved people. Learn more about the work CV Starr Intern Jillian Curran did this summer for the Maryland Loyalism Project to piece together these records. https://www.amphilsoc.org//rare-opportunity-restore-person

The APS gets to host Science on Tap on Monday, December 14! The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow Janine Boldt will get on a soapbox (not really) about trade labor as science and chat about the Franklin family soap recipe. https://www.amphilsoc.org//science-tap-sudsy-science-makin

After the American Revolution, Loyalists petitioned for compensation for their lossessome of those petitioners were women. Learn what CV Starr Intern Elizabeth Lilly discovered about these women for the Maryland Loyalism Project this summer https://www.amphilsoc.org//uncovering-experiences-female-l

What is American cuisine and how did it get this way? Join us this Thursday at 6 pm EST for a virtual talk with APS Member and Yale University History Professor Paul Freedman inspired by his recent book with W. W. Norton & Company. Please register to attend.

Don’t miss tomorrow evening’s lecture, co-hosted with the Carpenters’ Company, on Mary Beth Norton’s new book: 1774: The Long Year of Revolution. https://www.amphilsoc.org/events/1774-long-year-revolution

Mark your calendarsDr. Shandin Pete will give the first Indigenous Studies Seminar of the 2020-2021 year on A Review of Salish Astronomical Knowledge on Friday, Nov. 6, 2020 at 3:30PM. https://www.amphilsoc.org//indigenous-studies-seminar-revi

Of the 28 scientists that The Aspen Institute invited to offer advice to the next President of the United States, 10 are APS Members. Collectively, they urge trust in science and scientists. Read what they have to say: https://www.aspeninstitute.org//scientists-advice-to-next/

Learn from the best on #StatisticsDaythe John Tukey Papers (APS 1962), one of the most influential statisticians of the 20th century, are at the APS including these lecture notes on Numbers and Statistical Theory from 1960. https://search.amphilsoc.org/collections/view #CollectionHighlights

In this meta-#newacq long-serving APS Librarian John Vaughan (1756-1841, APS 1784) inquires about acquiring material that would build on the papers of the Lee family and Thomas Jefferson to augment Library’s collections related to the founding era #CollectionHighlights

Congratulations to Jan Ziolkowski (APS 2017) who has been elected to the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters https://news.harvard.edu//jan-ziolkowski-elected-to-the-f/